China is advancing rapidly in the new space race and could reach the moon before the end of the decade—yet patience may prove to be America's best strategy.
After the successful docking of China's latest cohort of taikonauts to its very own space station, the question of who will dominate the future of space exploration has been brought into sharp focus.Nowhere is this latest installment of the space race more apparent than the ambitions to land people back on the moon by the time this decade is out—a race China may now win, according to experts.
and other allied states is just a little bit more uncertain,' van Loon said.But while China landing people on the moon first would be a significant shift in the dominance of space exploration, van Loon is concerned that rushing to get there first could be costly for the U.S.'I think it would be a mistake to try to get there come what may before the Chinese do. From a scientific point of view, that's a risk that's not worth taking,' he said.
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